Title: Coerced Wife
Series: New York Underworld #2
Author: Charmaine Pauls
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Touch Her and Die
Fake Relationship/Forced Proximity
Release Date: November 18, 2024
He offers me protection, but the bed of a killer isn’t a safe place to be.
I got myself in a predicament. Powerful people on both sides of the law want me dead. A killer needs me alive for his own selfish reasons, reasons I never could’ve imagined in my wildest dreams.
I’m not safe in the bed of a cold–blooded murderer, but I don’t have a choice. On the one hand, he offers me protection, and on the other, he tightens the noose.
I’m caught in his web of lies and deceit. Every truth that’s uncovered destroys me a little more. But he’s already injected me with his venomous seduction.
Before I know it, he’ll swallow me whole.
Renee’s Five Star Review
I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is the story of Save and Anya. You have to read Coerced Kiss first or you will be lost in this book. That book ended on a cliff and this one picks up right where it left off. People are talking in Sav’s circle and they really want to know why he kept Anya close. He knows that the ones around him are only waiting for there moment to move against him. And that moment is getting closer and closer. But he has a ace up his sleeve and has every intention of making Anya his wife. However, he never planned for her to be carrying someone else’s baby and for everyone to find out the way they do. She never expected what would be coming at their engagement party. An event that turned her very world upside down. Now she has two choices and she has to figure out which one is the best course of action to take. Sav however is a very smart man and he knows that she has plans and he is not about to let her go though with any of those. I loved that he opened up to her about everything that she has heard that have rocked her world. Now we are counting down the days to their wedding and you can feel it bleeding off the pages that things are about to go down. I have to stop taking about it now. I will warn you that the end of this book will shock the pants right off of you. Now I need to have Coerced Queen in my hand as soon as possible. This book is so good. I loved every single second of it. I loved getting to know Sav and Anya better and seeing the dynamic between them.
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As for the rest, desolation rips through me when I push the door open and walk through it. Every step I take is like walking on a bed of glowing red coals.
Saverio stands on the gallery, talking to Dante. His smile slips when he sees me.
“What’s wrong?” he asks, wrapping an arm around my waist.
I plaster a smile on my face. “Nothing.”
The way his eyes tighten in the corners says he doesn’t believe me, but he doesn’t push the issue.
I stand like a statue at his side while people file past in a steady row to prematurely congratulate us and to make mindless conversation.
A short while later, Luigi asks the DJ to kill the music. He makes an announcement, but everything is like white noise in my ears.
Saverio takes my hand and pushes a ring with a huge oval diamond over my finger. I can’t stop staring at the monstrosity that shines under the lights, the huge stone weighing down my hand. Saverio holds my gaze as he lifts my fingers to his lips and kisses the ring, something dark and deviant sparking in those eyes that resemble the color of an iced-over lake. Clapping follows and then cheers.
Lowering his head, he claims my lips in a kiss that lasts too long to be appropriate for the occasion. This time, wolf whistling sounds.
It all happens in a blur. The one moment I’m Anya Brennan, and in the next, I’m to become Ms. De Luca.
“Soon,” Saverio whispers in my ear, sealing that frightening promise with a tender kiss on my neck.
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Charmaine loves to write dark and edgy romance that will melt both your e-reader and your heart. She’s a mom of two teenagers, an adorable dog, and a dominant cat. Her country of birth is South Africa where many of her stories play off. Her French husband kidnapped her to the south of France where she currently lives with her family. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in the kitchen baking cakes or in the gym lifting weights (because … all those cakes!).
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About Renee Henson
Renee Henson has an obsession with reading and reviewing. Especially anything that is a dark romance, fairy tale retelling, MC, and is trying her best to love the PNR worlds. Nothing is quiet as exciting to her as reading a good book and then talking about it or making comments while reading with her friends that have read the book too. She is always happiest with her kindle in her hand and her nose is a book. She has been reviewing for Stephanie's Book Reports for over ten years.
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